Vsc Check Problem

[Infinity]

Anyone else suffered from VSC (vehicle Stability Control) problems on the new IS

Driving down the A19 on Tuesday, straight road, 70mph(ISH!) and the dash lights up like a seasonal shrub with VSC Check. Traction control and engine management lights on. Took iit in to Lex Newcastle and had it reset. Wednesday morning on the A1 again 70ish straight road same problem appears.

Took it in this morning and left it for the day to get an engine 02 sensor replaced. Thought it was strange that an engine 02 sensor would cause a VSC fault

By the way Lex Newcastle were first rate, coutesy car, fault repaired in 3 hours and the car cleaned and valleted inside when i collected. :D

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[Scarlet Pimpernell]

Not yet...The lights only come on twice, at speedy getaways in the wet ;)

[garethr]

Perhaps the VSC light comes on for everything.... :)

A few days after I bought my GS the VSC and check engine lights stayed on if I turned the key straight to the "start" position.

If I turned it until the dash lights came on and let all the lights go out before I started the engine it was OK.

I eventually tracked that down to the plug at the front of the inlet cam (not sure what it is; VVTi? cam position sensor?) not being pushed fully home.

[Infinity]

UH-OH spoke too soon, the f :tsktsk: king lights come back on again.

back to Lex Nuke once again.

Dischuffed of Newcastle.

[Jonathan Craft]

Oh well I have an IS220d SE MM (55 Jan 31) I have it since september (had 3500 on clock when I got it). Have since done about 2000 miles with no problems apart from 31mpg on a good run (that's another issue).

Anyway on the way to a meeting this morning I was doing 70 on the motorway and the vsc check comes up in the message window along with the vsc light and engine management light. i'm just waiting for the RAC to attend as advised by Lexus Manchester so will keep you all posted.... :-(

UH-OH spoke too soon, the f :tsktsk: king lights come back on again.

back to Lex Nuke once again.

Dischuffed of Newcastle.

[Infinity]

Oh well I have an IS220d SE MM (55 Jan 31) I have it since september (had 3500 on clock when I got it). Have since done about 2000 miles with no problems apart from 31mpg on a good run (that's another issue).

Anyway on the way to a meeting this morning I was doing 70 on the motorway and the vsc check comes up in the message window along with the vsc light and engine management light. i'm just waiting for the RAC to attend as advised by Lexus Manchester so will keep you all posted.... :-(

UH-OH spoke too soon, the f :tsktsk: king lights come back on again.

back to Lex Nuke once again.

Dischuffed of Newcastle.

Unfortunatly i have to report things have gone from bad to worse.

The storey so far in brief

1. 21/11 VSC Check. ECU reset

2. 23/11 VSC Check. Engine 02 Sensor replaced.

3. 24/11- 29/11 VSC Check. Engine ECU replaced.

4. 29/11 VSC Check.

I collected my car from Lexus Newcastle yesterday afternoon, drove home from work last night

covered 7 miles in total after leaving the dealers and the same fault appears.

I have taken the car back in this morning and the fault has been escalated to Lexus tech dept.

I have no complaints about Lexus Newcastle at all, they have been fantastic.

The error seems to be an wildly intermittant problem, before picking the car up yesterday LN did 45 miles as an extensive extended test with no problems.

The only difference i have made to the car over the last couple of weeks is the addition

of an OEM Sony Ericsson cable link from my phone (SE P990i) to the Aux socket in the car so i can use the memory stick in the phone as an MP3 player.

If i connect the phone to the cable, then while im driving ( No i know i shouldnt do this but..)dial from the phone while its playing mp3's (MP3 player stops) the system generates a huge amount of feed back in the phone until the call connects.

Has anyone else suffered from similar problems.

I dont think its the phone/MP3 causing the fault, because VSC Check errors have occured while LN have had the car for testing without the phone, and i am told the two systems are so far apart electrically, any feedback would not effect the ECU, the Aux only feeds audio signals back to the MM system?.

Please someone help, i cant stand the turbo lag in the loaner.

Infinity...........

[Jonathan Craft]

As promised here is where we are up to......

From the outset let me tell you Lexus Manchester have been fantastic. My car as you will see from an earlier post was only delivered to them on Wednesday afternoon and by Friday I am in a ML 320CDI (Lexus themselves had no cars available so they hired me this one :) ).

Anyway back to the point, I spoke with their service people and apparently they have ordered a part and this I believe has not fixed the problem :duh: so we will wait and see. On another note I raised the question of the low fuel consumption 32-35 on a good run!!! and their immediate response was we will look into this as well.

I hope these two issues can be resolved soon, I welcome any of your comments on the trouble I am having. It might be an idea if we can get the Administrators to create a topic where we can list all the known faults on this vehicle and any possible resolutions.

Jonathan

[Infinity]

As promised here is where we are up to......

From the outset let me tell you Lexus Manchester have been fantastic. My car as you will see from an earlier post was only delivered to them on Wednesday afternoon and by Friday I am in a ML 320CDI (Lexus themselves had no cars available so they hired me this one :) ).

Anyway back to the point, I spoke with their service people and apparently they have ordered a part and this I believe has not fixed the problem :duh: so we will wait and see. On another note I raised the question of the low fuel consumption 32-35 on a good run!!! and their immediate response was we will look into this as well.

I hope these two issues can be resolved soon, I welcome any of your comments on the trouble I am having. It might be an idea if we can get the Administrators to create a topic where we can list all the known faults on this vehicle and any possible resolutions.

Jonathan

Picked mine up from Lex Newcastle on Friday, they wnated to keep it another couple of days to drive and test incase the problem reoccurred, but why have them drive it arround as a test vehicle when i can do the same. So the engineer has changed the other 02 sensor in the engine and all seems to be ok after 30+ miles

The computer fault code may have directed them to the wrong engine bank o2 sensor (Which is a little worrying) This could have highlighted an error in the fault recognition systems maybe worth passing on to Manchester.

Anyway i have the car back and all seems fine, touch wood

[Jonathan Craft]

As promised here is where we are up to......

From the outset let me tell you Lexus Manchester have been fantastic. My car as you will see from an earlier post was only delivered to them on Wednesday afternoon and by Friday I am in a ML 320CDI (Lexus themselves had no cars available so they hired me this one :) ).

Anyway back to the point, I spoke with their service people and apparently they have ordered a part and this I believe has not fixed the problem :duh: so we will wait and see. On another note I raised the question of the low fuel consumption 32-35 on a good run!!! and their immediate response was we will look into this as well.

I hope these two issues can be resolved soon, I welcome any of your comments on the trouble I am having. It might be an idea if we can get the Administrators to create a topic where we can list all the known faults on this vehicle and any possible resolutions.

Jonathan

Well, I got my car back yesterday and :D :D :D :D :D it is fixed. Apparently it has had the 5th Injector replaced with amended parts and the ecu replaced.

It is as if it is a different car. I am so impressed and I must say that the team at Lexus Manchester have been fantastic.

Jonathan